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This one arrived yesterday 😊 Looking forward to reading it!
#AmReading #books #bookstodon #China #literature
Philostratus keeps on giving:
A huge part of the book is about Palamedes, the Greek hero who got himself completely written out of the Iliad.
For dissing Odysseus too much.
No wonder Odysseus was pissed, there are some great one-liners in there :D
Oh, and the guy invented writing, numbers, and dice. In case you needed a #pagan patron of #DnD players.
"Instead of the perfect human, Frankenstein created a monster."
#OTD in 1910.
The first movie version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) is released in the U.S. by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features unbilled the actor Charles Ogle as Frankenstein's monster, & Mary Fuller as the doctor's fiancée.
The short film Frankenstein is available at @internetarchive
https://archive.org/details/frankenstein1910HD
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445
#books #literature #movie
Frankenstein (1910) [Restored] : J. Searle Dawley : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Months ago, i learned about the restoration of the first film version of Frankenstein carried out by the Library of Congress and noticed that the picture...Internet Archive
In March 1907. The Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated AD 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang in China. It is said to be "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book".
It is also the first known creative work with an explicit public domain dedication, as its colophon at the end states that it was created "for universal free distribution". via @wikipedia
The Diamond Sutra at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64623
![Front line of the Chinese Diamond Sūtra, printed in the 9th year of the Xiantong era of the Tang dynasty, i.e. 868 CE, the oldest known dated printed book in the world. British Library.
The colophon, at the inner end, reads: Reverently [caused to be] made for universal free distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents on the 13th of the 4th moon of the 9th year of Xiantong [i.e. 11th May, CE 868 ].](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/527308 "Front line of the Chinese Diamond Sūtra, printed in the 9th year of the Xiantong era of the Tang dynasty, i.e. 868 CE, the oldest known dated printed book in the world. British Library.
The colophon, at the inner end, reads: Reverently [caused to be] made for universal free distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents on the 13th of the 4th moon of the 9th year of Xiantong [i.e. 11th May, CE 868 ].")
The Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-Paramita by Unknown
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
Just finisihed this & it's brilliant: Katalin Kariko's story of her life. She was convinced that mRNA therapies could work decades ago & did the foundation work, all while being ignored, never promoted & struggling for jobs.
Today, millions are vaccinated with mRNA vaccines & she has a Nobel prize.
It's a great story, and leaves a lot for the scientific system to think about. Highly recommended.
#books #mRNA #science #biography
1/? 🧵 My #Solarpunk Link Collection
I’ll use this post to collect Links to resources (and people) within the solarpunk movement.
Podcasts: https://mastodon.floe.earth/@lex/111878367504168564
Youtube Channels: https://mastodon.floe.earth/@lex/111878370533900728
Authors here on Mastodon: https://mastodon.floe.earth/@lex/111878384563846318
Free online stories I liked: https://mastodon.floe.earth/@lex/111878389361144850
#climatecrisis #art #activism #books #bookstodon
Lex (@lex@floe.earth)
#Solarpunk Podcasts: The Fire These Times https://thefirethesetimes.com/ @firethesetimes@bird.makeup Solarpunk Presents https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/ @solarpunkpresents@climatejustice.rocks Solarpunk Futures https://solarpunkmagazine.floe.earth Mastodon
Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days #OTD in 1890.
In 1888, Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) into fact for the1st time. November 14, 1889, and with two days' notice, she boarded the Augusta Victoria, a steamer of the Hamburg America Line, and began her 40,070 kilometer journey. via @wikipedia
Nellie Bly at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9648
#books
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Books by Bly, Nellie (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 72,713 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22King%2C+Martin+Luther%2C+Jr.%2C+1929-1968%22
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#MLKday #DrMartinLutherKingJr #Books #Libraries #InternetArchive
Lebanese writer, poet and visual artist Kahlil Gibran was born #OTD in 1883. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages. His principal works in English (besides the above mentioned) are The Madman, The Forerunner, Sand and Foam, and Jesus, the Son of Man.
Kahlil Gibran at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1813
Books by Gibran, Kahlil (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 72,562 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
La Biblioteca Nacional de España digitaliza 1.033 obras de 137 autores que pasan a dominio público este año
Leer más en Publishnews
#libros #books #Booktodon #Bookstodon #literaverso #literatura
La Biblioteca Nacional de España digitaliza 1.033 obras de 137 autores que pasan a dominio público este año - Publishnews
La Biblioteca Nacional de España ha puesto a disposición de los usuarios 1.033 obras de 137 autores españoles cuya obra pasa a dominio públicoRedacción Publishnews (Publishnews)
I found some more traveling libraries! These are from the Finnish Seafarers' Union from the 1920s and are, I believe, to be brought aboard boats. From (yes I am at work today) Flickr Commons. #libraries #books #finland
https://www.flickr.com/photos/valokuvataiteenmuseo/albums/72157676384900225/
Leisure / Vapaa-aika - Kulutusosuuskuntien Keskusliitto
Images of urbanisation, industrialisation and the emergence of consumer culture and the welfare state – the familiar 20th century story of the upheavals of Finnish society. This time, however, the vantage point is that of the working class.Flickr
I've read 51 books so far in 2023. That's fewer than last year, but still about a book a week: https://reading.chatterjee.net/
Some of my favorite reading memories this year include book festivals in Kolkata and Berkeley, exploring new-to-me indie bookstores (Champaca, Borderlands, and Perelandra), writing gushing reader fan mail, and so many long walks powered by audiobooks.
Of of the books I read this year, here are the ones that will stick with me…
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#Books #Bookstodon #NowReading #BestOf2023
Anirvan Chatterjee: What I've been reading
Books that Anirvan Chatterjee has read recentlyreading.chatterjee.net
Artificial Divide, edited by Robert Kingett and Randy Lacey (Audiobook Excerpt)
This is a preview of the digital audiobook of Artificial Divide, edited by Robert Kingett and Randy Lacey, available on Libro.fm at https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781990086199?cmp=libroyoutube_2021.
Artificial Divide
By: Robert Kingett, Randy Lacey, Alice Eakes, Anita Haas, Ann Chiappetta, Ben Fulton, Eunice Cooper-Matchett, Felix Imonti, Heather Meares, Jameyanne Fuller, Jamieson Wolf, Lawrence Gunther, M. Leona Godin, Melissa Yuan-Innes, Niki White, Rebecca Blaevoet & Tessa Soderberg
Narrated by: Nathan Frechette, Jameyanne Fuller, Alice Eakes, Anita Haas, M. Leona Godin & Niki White
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Description:
Step into a world of rogue screen readers, Braille in fantasy worlds, a friend meeting an acquaintance after several years, and more.
This #OwnVoices anthology features fiction by Blind and visually impaired authors showing readers how they thrive, hurt, get revenge, outsmart bullies, or go on epic adventures. Artificial Divide is an own-voices story collection that captures the many layers of Blindness and, for once, puts visually impaired protagonists in the driver's seat, letting us glimpse their lives.
When we think about it, we're not really divided.
Hey there!
I'm CKMo, and I'm a taiwanese high fantasy indie author. I'm trying to bring more works with #eastasian influences into western culture via my novels.
You can find all my publishing sites, social media, and discord server in my bio!
#indieauthor #indiebooks #indiefantasy #fantasy #selfpublished #webnovelist #writing #novel #fantasyauthor #taiwanese #asian #asiancreator #writers #book #books #fantasybook #bookstodon #webnovel #highfantasy @bookstodon
"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
Dracula
Irish novelist and critic, who created Count Dracula, Bram Stoker was born #OTD in 1847. Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as a collection of realistic but completely fictional diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship's logs, and newspaper clippings, all of which added a level of detailed realism to the story.
Bram Stoker at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/190
https://www.audible.com/pd/B09GCBV1QG?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp
#audible #literature #books #reading
Project Gutenberg partnered with Microsoft to make over 5000 new audiobooks.
They are freely available at
https://marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net/gutenberg-public/Website/index.html
as well as popular podcast download sites. Read more about this effort, and see a video of Project Gutenberg CEO Greg Newby talking about it:
https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1646266241611394912-project-gutenberg-nonprofit-azure-synapse-analytics-azure-ai-services
Project Gutenberg brings free audiobooks to the global community with AI-generated book narration
The oldest digital library and a leading distributor of free eBooks, Project Gutenberg wanted to make its collection more accessible to a broader community of members, including people who have visual impairments and those around the world who might …Microsoft Customers Stories
The Sakya Monastery in tibet has a library comprising some 84,000 books. Most are Buddhist scriptures, but there are works of literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, and art. They date back centuries.
In 2011 they began to digitize the library. All books are indexed and about 20% have been fully digitized.
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakya_Monastery
#Books #Library #Monastery #Tibet #History #Knowledge #Monks #Buddhism #Sakya
Mastodon has been an amazing source for #book recommendations. A few #books I've read since joining Mastodon that were excellent:
The High House by Jessie Greengrass https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-High-House/Jessie-Greengrass/9781982180119
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything
Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff https://wwnorton.com/books/survival-of-the-richest
Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/factory-girls-michelle-gallen/1140785897
Book details - Macmillan
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—fr...Macmillan
El #gato Primo y yo con la cara de #ElTerror.
#Primo the #cat and I see the face of #TheTerror.
😱
#Cats #Gatos #CatsOfMastodon #GatosDeMastodon #books #libros #bookstodon #libroverso #novelas #novels #DanSimmons
Antiguos Retratos - Almudena Grandes
Uno de los recuerdos que tengo de su casa es la cantidad de libros que había por todos lados: en las paredes, en las mesas, apilados en el suelo...
#fotografia #photography #retrato #portrait #libros #books #AlmudenaGrandes
"The face, which, duly as the sun,
Rose up for me with life begun,
To mark all bright hours of the day
With hourly love, is dimmed away —
And yet my days go on, go on."
De Profundis (1862)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning died #OTD in 1861. Her work had a major influence on prominent writers of the day, including Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson. via @Wikipedia
Books by Elizabeth Barrett Browning at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/781
Books by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 70,990 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
The book is available from Amazon in paperback & Kindle formats.
#HistoricalFiction #Rome #Writing #Books
The fine folks at Electric Lit have an interesting list of novels by Arab and Arab Diaspora writers focused on the concept of the storyteller. Includes the exceptional Naguib Mahfouz and a whole lot of folks new to us.
Let the reading commence. #books
https://electricliterature.com/7-arab-and-arab-diasporic-novels-about-storytellers/
7 Arab and Arab Diasporic Novels about Storytellers - Electric Literature
Stories that counter-colonize the Western narrative and reclaim cultural agencyIntern Electric Lit (Electric Literature)
🌈✨ Na na na na na na na…! ✨🌈 Are you playing We Love Katamari REROLL + Royal Reverie? Get a copy of my book on the making of the original Katamari Damacy featuring interviews with Keita Takahashi and learn all about how this magical game came to be!
📗KATAMARI DAMACY by L.E. Hall (Boss Fight Books), available at a bookseller near you
#Books #BossFightBooks #Katamari #KatamariDamacy #WeLoveKatamari #WeLoveKatamariRerollRoyalReverie #Games #VideoGames #RetroGames
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Laura has authored two books: Katamari Damacy for Boss Fight Books, and Planning Your Escape: Strategy Secrets to Make You an Escape Room Superstar for Simon & Schuster’s Ti…Laura E. Hall
Little black cat in a big forest. An altered book by Isobelle Ouzman.
#art #books #BookCarving
Isobelle Ouzman | Altered Book Artist
Portfolio and online shop for Altered Book Artist, Isobelle Ouzman.Isobelle Ouzman
@workingwriter @chrisminnick huge thanks to them for sending it to me😊
Will be reviewing the book and testing out the explanations on my favorite dummy, since my husband has finally decided to make a Mastodon account 👀
#Mastodon #Fediverse #books
https://puri.sm/posts/kyle-and-matthias/?mtm_campaign=thought_piece&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-kyle-and-matthias
#freesoftware #software #books
Conversation with Kyle Rankin, President, Purism and Matthias Kirschner, President at Free Software Foundation Europe. – Purism
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC